Canada Post unveils Canada 150 Nunavut stamp

IQALUIT, Nunavut - The creation of the northern territory of Nunavut on April 1, 1999, is celebrated in the latest stamp to mark Canada’s 150th birthday. Nunavut Premier Peter Taptuna - along with the territory’s commissioner and the Speaker in the legislature, unveiled the stamp in the capital of Iqaluit today. The creation of Nunavut was part of an aboriginal land claim settlement and was the first major change to Canada’s map since Newfoundland and Labrador joined Confederation in 1949. The territory encompasses about one-fifth of the country’s land mass and is home to fewer than 40,000 people, most of them Inuit.

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Canada’s top soldier accepted an internal report Tuesday that condemned the military for failing a former master corporal whose case spawned a crackdown on sexual misconduct in the military.

In ordering full acceptance of the internal inquiry’s findings, Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jonathan Vance also thanked Stephanie Raymond “for having the courage and tenacity to identify a series of failures by her chain of command” after she reported that she had been sexually assaulted.

“Through a comprehensive action plan stemming from the (inquiry’s) recommendations, I have ordered the vice chief of the defence staff, the commander Canadian Army and the commander of Military Personnel Command to implement the recommendations as soon as possible,” Vance said in a statement.

In 2012, Raymond accused Warrant Officer Andre Gagnon of sexually assaulting her in 2011.

Gagnon was later acquitted by a military jury, but Raymond continued fighting the military, alleging that she was retaliated against as a result of the complaint. The battle resulted in Raymond’s discharge from the